Research Catalog

Title

Leadership, social cohesion, and identity in late antique Spain and Gaul (500-700) / edited by Dolores Castro and Fernando Ruchesi.

Publication

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Castro, Dolores
• Ruchesi, Fernando

Description

259 pages : maps; 25 cm.

Summary

The replacement of the Roman Empire in the West with emerging kingdoms like Visigothic Spain and Merovingian Gaul resulted in new societies, but without major population displacement. Societies changed because identities shifted and new points of cohesion formed under different leaders and leadership structures. This volume examines two kingdoms in the post-Roman west to understand how this process took shape. Though exhibiting striking continuities with the Roman past, Gaul and Spain emerged as distinctive, but not isolated, political entities that forged different strategies and drew upon different resources to strengthen their unity, shape social ties, and consolidate their political status.

Series Statement

Late antique and early medieval Iberia

Uniform Title

Late antique and early medieval Iberia.

Subject

• To 1800
• 414-711
• Leadership
• Group identity
• Social conditions
• Spain > History > Gothic period, 414-711
• Spain
• Europe > Gaul

Genre/Form

• Informational works.
• History.

Note

• Table of contents Introduction (Dolores Castro and Fernando Ruchesi) Building Leadership, Forging Cohesion. Bishops and Charity in Late Antiquity (Dolores Castro) The Logic of Control: Postulating a Visigothic Ontology of Human Being (Michael J. Kelly) Ritual Communities and Social Cohesion in Merovingian Gaul (Alexander O'Hara) Constructing New Leaders: Bishops in Visigothic Hispania Tarraconensis (fifth to seventh centuries) (Meritxell Pérez Martínez) Coexisting Leaderships in the Visigothic Cities: A 'Coopetitive' Model (Pablo Poveda Arias) Leadership and Social Cohesion in Merovingian Gaul and Visigothic Spain. The Case of Military Groups (Fernando Ruchesi) Between Rome and Toulouse. The Catholic Episcopate in the regnum Tolosanum (418-507) (Christian Stadermann) .

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Dolores Castro and Fernando Ruchesi -- Building leadership, forging cohesion : bishops and charity in late antiquity / Dolores Castro -- The logic of control : postulating a Visigothic ontology of human being / Michael J. Kelly -- Ritual communities and social cohesion in Merovingian Gaul / Alexander O'Hara -- Constructing new leaders : bishops in Visigothic Hispania Tarraconensis (fifth to seventh centuries) / Meritxell Perez Martínez -- Coexisting leaderships in the Visigothic cities : a 'coopetitive' model / Pablo Poveda Arias -- Leadership and social cohesion in Merovingian Gaul and Visigothic Spain : the case of military groups / Fernando Ruchesi -- Between Rome and Toulouse : the Catholic Episcopate in the regnum Tolosanum (418-507) / Christian Stadermann.

Call Number

JFE 23-1845

ISBN

• 9789463725958
• 9463725954

LCCN

9789463725958

OCLC

1371971359

Title

Leadership, social cohesion, and identity in late antique Spain and Gaul (500-700) / edited by Dolores Castro and Fernando Ruchesi.

Publisher

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Late antique and early medieval Iberia

Late antique and early medieval Iberia.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

To 1800

Chronological Term

414-711

Added Author

Castro, Dolores, editor.

Ruchesi, Fernando, editor.

Other Form:

9789048553778

Other Standard Identifier

9789463725958

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1845